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Einstein on the beac...
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Einstein on the beach [digital videodisc] : an opera in four acts / by Philip Glass/Robert Wilson ; produced by Pomegranate Arts, Inc., executive producer, Linda Brumbach, in partnership with le Festival d'automne et le Théâtre de la ville, with the support of Pierre Bergé ; a coproduction by Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet, Telmondis, Mezzo, in association with France 2 ; produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière ; film director, Don Kent.
London : Opus Arte, [2016]
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Operas.
Description:
2 videodiscs (approximately 264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet bound with DVD container (55 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm)
Contents:
Disc 1. Acts 1-2 -- disc 2. Acts 3-4.
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The opera eschews traditional narrative in favor of a formalist approach based on structured spaces laid out by Wilson in a series of storyboards.The music was written in the spring, summer and fall of 1975.It is Glass's first and longest opera score, taking approximately five hours in full performance without intermission, The work became the first in Glass's thematically related Portrait Trilogy, along with Satyagraha (1979), and Akhnaten (1983).
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